| Acronym | Meaning |
| CHI | Cambridge Healthtech Inst. |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
| CTG | Trinucleotide Repeat |
| HHMI | Howard Hughes Medical Institute |
| EUCIB | European Collaborative Interspecific Backcross |
| STM | Scanning Tunneling Microscope |
| UW | University Of Washington |
| HGCC | Human Genome Coordinating Committee |
| CIRB | Colorado Institute For Research In Biotechnology |
| OAINN | Ohio Aerospace Institute Neural Networks |